There’s a dictionary saying heft means weight, but what does heft mean in the phrase of “weight and heft”? Is it "weight and weight"? I think there might be some difference between weight and heft, but I don’t know for sure. I’d be happy if you could help me.
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From Word Net Search: Boob
Noun
S: (n) dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead (an ignorant or foolish person)
S: (n) breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty (either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman)
Verb
S: (v) drop the ball, sin, blunder, boob, goof (commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake) "I blundered during the job interview"
(I was not aware of the verb form, but it follows from the first noun form)
Boob could also be used to refer to a person who is acting like a clown, or it could be used to refer to something that induces cluelessness. We have a nickname for television in the US (although it's going out of fashion) called the boob-tube. I assure you it's not because it shows porn.
Noun
S: (n) breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty (either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman)
S: (n) nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit (the small projection of a mammary gland)
S: (n) titmouse, tit (small insectivorous birds)
(I was aware of titmouse but not a small bird called tit)
Tits is generally the word for mammary glands, being a corruption from teat. That's what @ghoppe was onto with his, where you emphasize the pointy bit of the end of the mammary gland. It's more evident on a dog or pig, where there are a line of teats (or tits). The fact that this usage has spread to also refer to women is likely from the fact that country/urban life has comingled more of late than of years past.
The usage to associate tits with boobs however, is purely sexist. In polite society you should mention neither, referring instead to the bosom that @Robusto mentions, or breast, but only when you must. Bosom indicates "that feeling of your grandmother wrapping her arms around you when you're scared" and breasts is generally seen as more clinical in nature.
Generally in polite society you would just avoid references to a woman's breasts, and let it go.
When breasts are being discussed (such as in the context of bra fitting), women will often use the word "boobs" amongst themselves.
With men and men alone, tits is fine.
NOTE: I edited in response to a comment and decided I would give a little more attribution.
Note - In systems:
Validate (to check the aliveness, legal status, existence of data). To check the ‘validity’ of data - does it comply with the ‘legal’ or required format of the system.
Verify (to check the truth) - to check whether something is true. To verify that a user exists, verify that an account is current, to ‘check the truth of’ ... anything.
Validation - Validate: means ‘having force in law, legally binding’, from the Latin - validus -"strong, effective, powerful, active". Validation is ‘the process of checking that something is legally or currently active.’
Examples:
- ‘Sorry sir. Your passport is no longer valid. It’s out of date’.
- ‘Sorry, your gift voucher is no longer valid, it expired’.
‘Sorry madam - our validation has shown that this cheque isn’t real - it’s a fake’.
When our system tries to validate this email address we see it is invalid, it uses the wrong format
- This email address is invalid - the user doesn’t exist
https://www.etymonline.com/word/valid
Verification - Verify - is from the Latin ‘verus’ or truth. It means ‘to check the truth’ or - check if (something is) true. Verification is ‘the process of checking whether something is true’.
Examples:
- We have verified the image on your passport and confirm that it is your true image.
- We have checked your blood and can verify (note - it means ‘state as true’) that you do not have anaemia.
- Our verification of your order is complete and we can confirm that the box we sent you contains 15 white hats and 5 green.
- We cannot verify this email user on our server. They don’t seem to exist.
Best Answer
While 'weight' is defined as the downward force on an object due to gravity, heft, in the context of your question, has a more subjective connotation usually involving the "feel" of the object in the hand- 'Hefting' an object usually involves picking up an object and making small motions with it to determine how it feels in the hand. The more flimsy an object feels the less heft it is perceived to have.